To:HIS SISTER MARIA

Published:First published in 1929 in the journalProletarskaya RevolyutsiyaNo. 11.

      Sent from Paris.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1977,

      Moscow,Volume 37,

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MariaIlyinichna Ulyanova,Davydov’s House, Apt. 4,Bozheninsky Street,Devichye Polye,Moscow,Russia

January 12, 1910

DearManyasha,

Ihave just received your letter and hasten to scribble an
answer because I am afraid I shall be busy for the next
few
days.[1]I will try to get some information about the man
in German Switzerland. If this is needed in a hurry let me
know exactly when I must find him by, so that the
organisers can begin looking for him themselves (in the event of
my not finding him).

Ihave received the statistics. A bigmerci!

GiveAnyuta very best regards from me. Mark, too.

Iembrace Mother fondly and hope she is well.

Howare you? What is the winter like? It is warm here.
I have begun to pay more attention to the theatre; I have
seen Bourget’s new playLa barricade. Reactionary but
interesting.

Allthe best,Yours,V. U.

[1]Leninmeant that he would be attending the Plenary Meeting
of the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. held January 2-23 (January 15-
February 5), 1910, in Paris; it was known as the “Unity Plenum”.